(June 16, 2011 at 2:52 pm)Stue Denim Wrote: A respectful tone and logical arguments? Won't that come as a shock given: a) their perception of atheists and baby munching, bunny stomping satan worshipers? b) the fact that they have never encounter this (logical arguments) before?
You do that so when they're confused thinking, 'what's this atheist doing being civil?' you sneak behind they're back, stomp their bunnies, and eat their babies.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell